Dance 101 Lecture Outline Week Ten Text Chapter Nine Jazz Dance Musical Theatre and Tap Dance Video That s Dancing Gene Kelly Anatomy of a Dancer Jerome Robbins Something to Dance About Fosse Center Stage The Vaudeville Era o Early bariety shows that were the predestors of what later happened on broadway o Top acts were headliners o Movies killed this era o Connected the US before the electronic age Minstrel Shows o Sub genre of Vaudeville more African American audience and performers The Harlem Renaissance o Rebirth and reawakening o Neiborhood on the island of manhatten uptown o Place for the newest immigrants Irish at first African Americans last o 1920s called the jazz age roaring 20s era of flappers The Cotton Club o Most famous place o Where musicians got their start o Tap dancer singers dancers got their start here o Still segregated The Golden Age of Movie Musicals o 1930s 40s and 50s o Silent era o Early motion pictures called the flickers o Dancers didn t want to be filmed o Tap and ball room were the kings of dance genre and motion pictures o Television ended the golden age Busby Berkeley Trademark Style and Camera Work o Cinematic genius o Broadway stage choreographer director o First one to take camera off the floor combined filming on the floor with close ups and overhead shots o Also edited unusually made cuts and splices Fred Astaire 1899 1987 o Elegant tap dancer who used to do ballroom in Vaudville o Changed the way the motion picture camera photographed a dance o Wanted the performance to be what the audience saw o Usually in a tuxedo or tails Ginger Rogers 1911 1995 o Danced with Fred one of the most popular dancing couples o Projected romantic love through dance o Royal Wedding The Barclays of Broadway The Gay Divorcee Flying Down to Rio Top Hat Swing Time Holiday Inn constantly made movies o were called a class act Bill Bojangles Robinson 1878 1949 and Shirley Temple o She was 6 he was 56 year old black man o He was a Vaudeville Headliner o Movie magic embraced their relationship dynamic o Tap danced o The Little Colonel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Movie Musicals Stage Musicals Broadway Size of theatre determines if its off broadway The West End o Londons version of the broadway theatre district o Vary accessible Off Broadway Off Off Broadway Book Musicals o Based on a book story musical Concept Musicals o Ex cats Musical Reviews Either take an era or composer and center on that Florenz Ziegfeld 1867 1932 o The Ziegfeld Follies o took showgirls and put them with all sorts of people strung together by a decade George Balanchine 1904 1983 o On Your Toes Babes in Arms The Boys from Syracuse stage musical o I Married An Angel movie o all featured women in his life o all of them featured ballet dancers Katherine Dunham 1909 2006 crossover o Cabin in the Sky featured Alvin alley o Stormy Weather Lena Horn sang o anthropologist from Chicago o graduate work in Carribean Gene Kelly 1912 1996 o In competition with Fred Asteire o Common man dressing and polo shirt and sweatshirt comfortable clothes o Played construction workers and military guy o Very athletic o Created American style o Singing In the Rain end of vaudeville transition to siltent movies tap movie o An American in Paris Gershwin music very jazz style of dance o On The Town started as a ballet became a movie musical developed from fancy free o Brigadoon from gene Kelly to agnes de mille Jack Cole 1913 1974 o Jazz dancer who performed in night clubs o Did kismet and the other ones listed and movie called cover girl o Father of Jazz Dance Theatrical Jazz Dance Heritage o Kismet A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Man of La Mancha Cover Girl Agnes de Mille 1905 1993 o Ballet and Broadway and Movie Musicals o Member of courte de ballet o Uncle was head of movie studio o Rodeo dance only her connection to American west o used dream sequences that moved along the plot o Oklahoma story of becoming a state o Brigadoon o Carousel Gower Champion 1921 1980 42nd Street Hello Dolly Bye Bye Birdie Carnival I Do I Do Jerome Robbins 1918 1998 o broadway to ballet crossover o very tied to NYC ballet o chemistry major o West Side Story Fiddler on the Roof Peter Pan The King and I Gypsy o Fancy Free 3 sailors having a tourist in NYC stopping into bars and restaurants done by Jerome robbins ballet made movie version with gene Kelly and frank cenatra o Developed triple threat o Ballet to Broadway and Back Twyla Tharp b 1942 o individual is featured heavily o crossed over from modern dance to broadway o o o Modern Contemporary Dance Movie Musicals Broadway Uses composer to work Baryshnikov by Tharp Hair Amadeus White Nights Singing in the Rain Movin Out Billy Joel Come Fly Away Frank Sinatra The Times They are aChangin Bob Dylan Push Comes to Shove The Catherine Wheel o Worked with Mikale Barishnikof Bob Fosse 1927 1987 o 4 exam questions o Slinky twichey sexy style of dance a lot of hunched shoulders and head down invented the jazz hand and used gloves o Held the record for most Broadway shows choreographed o Was a tap dancer o Riff Brothers o Watched strippers o Took acting and dance classes at NYC ballet o Turned in position opposite of ballet o Used a hat in choreography o Cabaret Chicago Pippin Damn Yankees The Pajama Game Redhead Bells Are Ringing How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Sweet Charity Dancin All That Jazz Gillian Lynne b 1926 o broadways connection in London o ballet dancer crossover o Andrew Lloyd Weber used her to choreograph o Cats Phantom of the Opera Aspects of Love The Secret Garden Chitty Chitty Bang Bang o The Royal Ballet Susan Stroman b 1954 o New bob fosse o Had 3 broadway shoes running at the same time o Contact dance story no lyrics or song music won a tony o The Producers Young Frankenstein Crazy for You Steel Pier Center Stage o Revivals Showboat Oklahoma The Music Man o Ballet and jazz backgroung Jazz Dance roots in African movements and rhythms o Styles traditional musical theatre lyrical funk swing hip hop o Jazz uses ballet positions and jazz positions Vaudeville excellent explanation on page 126 Chapter Nine in the text 1930s and 1940s jazz dance was a part of the theatre nightclubs movie musicals and dance concerts Jack Cole 1913 1974 o Father of jazz dance espeicially theatrical o Big mentor to bob fosse o Started in night clubs then to broadway then to movies Tap Dance Vaudeville Minstrel Shows Broadway Movie Musicals Concert Dance o Broadway designed for show